#WritingCommunity While we wait on the edge of our seats for @BarrenMagazine 's Issue 18, let's revisit some of the fantastic #cnf we published in 2020
@JillianLuft 's "Sex with an Alligator"
"It’s so easy to love you, to give into the late afternoon lull and forget." https://barrenmagazine.com/sex-with-an-alligator/
"It’s so easy to love you, to give into the late afternoon lull and forget." https://barrenmagazine.com/sex-with-an-alligator/
@kirshwords
"The first time a doctor doesn’t believe me about pain, I am seven years old." https://barrenmagazine.com/bodily-bias/
"The first time a doctor doesn’t believe me about pain, I am seven years old." https://barrenmagazine.com/bodily-bias/
@brookekowalke's "Sublings"
"Just across the kitchen,... your old-soul eyes stare out at me from a frame shaped liked a life-preserver that your brother colored with his favorite blue. I took that picture of you just three days before you died." https://barrenmagazine.com/siblings/
"Just across the kitchen,... your old-soul eyes stare out at me from a frame shaped liked a life-preserver that your brother colored with his favorite blue. I took that picture of you just three days before you died." https://barrenmagazine.com/siblings/
@LoebDavon's "O.J. and the Wax Museum"
"... after the first show, he knew he finally had to tell our mother. He knew that his mistake was not just in portraying O.J. Simpson, but not telling our mother he was portraying O.J. Simpson." https://barrenmagazine.com/oj-and-the-wax-museum/
"... after the first show, he knew he finally had to tell our mother. He knew that his mistake was not just in portraying O.J. Simpson, but not telling our mother he was portraying O.J. Simpson." https://barrenmagazine.com/oj-and-the-wax-museum/
@mtoddcohen's "Clasping Hands"
"I yanked open the emergency door. We clasped each other’s hands as we descended the stairs. The smoke got thicker, so we ran until our panic-slick palms slid apart." https://barrenmagazine.com/clasping-hands/
"I yanked open the emergency door. We clasped each other’s hands as we descended the stairs. The smoke got thicker, so we ran until our panic-slick palms slid apart." https://barrenmagazine.com/clasping-hands/
@Lucywildeone's "Weighing Anchor"
"...you joked to passers-by in the street, I am Iron Man! as they turned their heads at the clank and wheeze of your armour and found compelling reasons to cross to the other side of the street." https://barrenmagazine.com/weighing-anchor/
"...you joked to passers-by in the street, I am Iron Man! as they turned their heads at the clank and wheeze of your armour and found compelling reasons to cross to the other side of the street." https://barrenmagazine.com/weighing-anchor/
@illmattic919's "I never had a dog to teach me about death"
"Why would anyone deprive their kids of a dog? Dogs are loyal and good-natured and quirky. Dogs are good at explaining parts of life that aren’t comfortable to talk about out loud." https://barrenmagazine.com/i-never-had-a-dog-to-teach-me-about-death/
"Why would anyone deprive their kids of a dog? Dogs are loyal and good-natured and quirky. Dogs are good at explaining parts of life that aren’t comfortable to talk about out loud." https://barrenmagazine.com/i-never-had-a-dog-to-teach-me-about-death/
@CMulliganWalsh's "A How-to for Desperate Times"
"When he stops coming to you for advice... when he stops bringing his lifelong friends around and starts hanging out with the kinds of so-called friends you don’t bring home to Mom, you pray some more." https://barrenmagazine.com/a-how-to-for-desperate-times/
"When he stops coming to you for advice... when he stops bringing his lifelong friends around and starts hanging out with the kinds of so-called friends you don’t bring home to Mom, you pray some more." https://barrenmagazine.com/a-how-to-for-desperate-times/
@writesforlife's "All in One Magic Soap"
You have to see it to believe it--so no excerpt
https://barrenmagazine.com/all-in-one-magic-soap/
You have to see it to believe it--so no excerpt

@heckaseuss's "he left a lullaby humming in my ear"
"my mother asks over the phone if someone’s won me over yet, like i’m a winning lottery ticket... she doesn’t believe my bad luck, that i only find boys who leave me with belly aches." https://barrenmagazine.com/two-flash-cnf-from-jj-pena/
"my mother asks over the phone if someone’s won me over yet, like i’m a winning lottery ticket... she doesn’t believe my bad luck, that i only find boys who leave me with belly aches." https://barrenmagazine.com/two-flash-cnf-from-jj-pena/